PRETEST in MATH 407 & MATH 415

Direction: Choose the letter that you think best answers the question.
1. Which of the following situations or activities involve permutation?
A. matching shirts and pants.
B. forming different triangles out of 5 points on a plane, no three of which are collinear.
C. assigning telephone numbers to subscribers.
D. forming a committee from the members of a club.
2. Two different arrangements of objects where some of them are identical are called ______.
A. distinguishable permutations
C. circular permutations
B. unique combinations
D. circular combinations
3. What do you call the different arrangements of objects of a group?
A. selection
C. permutation
B. differentiation
D. combination
4. Which situation illustrates permutation?
A. forming a committee of councilors.
B. selecting 10 questions to answer out of 15 questions in a test.
C. choosing 2 literature books to buy from a variety of choices.
D. assigning rooms to conference participants.
5. Which of the following expressions represents the number of distinguishable permutations
of the letters of the word CONCLUSIONS?

6. Seven varieties of potted plants can be arranged in a mini circular garden, in how many ways
can Mary Ann arrange them?
A. 700
B. 720
C. 800
D. 820
7. Given 7 flavoured juices, in how many ways can you select 3 flavors?
A. 210
B. 220
C. 230
D. 240
8. In how many ways can 6 people arrange themselves in a row for picture taking?
A. 700
B. 710
C. 720
D. 730

9. Given the word CHURCH, how many possible distinguishable permutations are possible?
A. 180
B. 190
 C. 200
D. 210
10. Six districts in Negros Oriental qualifies for NORAA 2019 this coming November. Each
district has its runner to join the race. In how many possible ways can they be arranged as gold,
silver, and bronze medalists?
A. 100
B. 120
C. 130
D. 140
11. ________________ refers to the different possible arrangements of a set of objects when
order is important.
A. combination
B. permutation
C. integration
D. differentiation
12. Which of the following situations or activities involve permutation?
A. matching shirts and pants
B. forming different triangles out of 5 points on a plane, no three of which are collinear.
C. assigning telephone numbers to subscribers.
D. forming a committee from the member of the club
13. If P(9,r) = 3024, what is r ?
A. 2
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
14. What is P(8,5)?
A. 56
B. 336
C. 1400
D. 6720
15. If (n , 4) = 5040, then n =___________.
A. 12
B. 10
C. 9
D. 8
16. What is the value of 4! ?
A. 4
B. 12
C. 24
D. 36
17. In how many ways can you arrange 5 potted plants in a row?
A. 100
B. 120
C. 150
D. 200
18. In how many ways can 3 people arrange themselves in a row for picture taking?
A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7
19. Evaluate P(5, 3).
 A. 60
B. 75
C. 100
D. 125
20. Find the number of distinguishable permutations of the letters of the word GOOD.
A. 6
B. 9
C. 10
D. 12
21. The following situations are examples of experiments except
A. tossing a coin
B. rolling a die
C. randomly choosing a ball from a box
D. counting numbers
22. The results of an experiment are called _____________.
A. experiments
B. sample space
C. outcomes
D. simple events
23. Which of the following are the outcomes in tossing a single coin?
A. head or tail
B. S = {head, tail}
C. a head
D. a tail
24. What does this symbol “U” represents?
A. intersection, “and”
B. union, “and”
C. intersection, “or”
D. union, “or”
25. A group of learners are given the following diagram below:

Which best describes the event set of A ∩ B?

A. {7; 10; 11}
B. {7; 10}
C. {1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11}
D. {1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 9; 10}

26. The median score is also the _________________.

A. 75th percentile
B. 5th decile
C. 3rd decile
D. 1st quartile
27. When distribution is divided into hundred equal parts, each score point that describes the
distribution is called a ______________.
A. percentile
B. decile
 C. quartile
D. median
28. The lower quartile is equal to ________________.
A. 50th percentile
B. 25th percentile
C. 2nd decile
D. 3rd quartile
29. Rochelle got a score of 55 which is equivalent to 70th percentile in a mathematics test. Which of
the following is NOT true?
A. She scored above 70% of her classmates.
B. Thirty percent of the class got scores of 55 and above.
C. If the passing mark is first quartile, she passed the test.
D. Her score is below the 5th decile.
30. In 100 – item test, the passing mark is the 3rd quartile. What does it imply?
A. The students should answer at least 75 items correctly to pass the test.
B. The students should answer at least 50 items correctly to pass the test.
C. The students should never answer at most 75 items correctly to pass the test.
D. The students should answer at most 50 items correctly to pass the test.
31. Which of the following is NOT a measure of position?
A. range
B. quartile
C. decile
D. percentile
32. The median score is also called the _______________.
A. 75th percentile
B. 2nd quartile
C. 3rd decile
D. 1st quartile
33. The lower quartile is equal to ______________.
A. 2nd decile
B. 3rd decile
C. 25th percentile
D. 50th percentile
34. Which of the following measures is different from other three?
A. fifth decile
B. median
C. second quartile
D. mean

35. In the set of scores: 14, 8, 12 and 10, what is the Value of Q 2?
A. 8
B. 12
C. 14
D. 19
36. What do you call the nine values that divide the data set into ten equal parts?
A. Quartiles
B. Deciles
C. Percentiles
D. Percentile rank
37. Which of the following quartiles is equivalent to the median of a given set of data?
 A. Q 1
B. Q 2
C. Q 3
D. Q 4
38. Ten students in Group A of Grade 10 – Gardenio got the following grades in Mathematics: 94, 79,
86, 85, 79, 90, 89, 91, 78, and 84. Find the value of P60
A. 84.9
B. 86.5
C. 87.8
D. 88.2
39. Vincent got a score of 38 which is the 75th percentile in a summative test. Which of the following
is FALSE?
A. He passed the test if the passing score is the 6th decile.
B. He scored above 75% of his classmates.
C. Twenty – five of the class got scores below 38.
D. Twenty – five percent of the class got scores of above 38.
40. Masagana National High School has a total of 60 teachers where 3rd decile of the ages is 36 years
old. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. Thirty percent of the teachers has the age of 36 and below.
B. Seventy percent of the teachers has the age of 36 and below.
C. The ages of all teachers of Masagana National High School are 36 years old.
D. Most of the teachers has the age of 36 years old.
41. It serves the purpose of leading the reaser from a general subject area to a particular field of
research.
A. Introduction
B. Discussion
C. Methods
D. Result
42. It is part of a research paper which should the findings or interpretation and arranged in a logical
sequence.
A. Discussion
B. Introduction
C. Methods
D. Result

43. A part of research paper which interprets and describes the significance of the findings in light of
what was already known about the research problem being investigated.
A. Methods
B. Discussion
C. Results
D. Introduction
44. It outlines intention behind the paper.
A. Results
B. Methods
C. Discussion
D. Purpose of the study
45. It provides information on the research design, research procedure, environment, respondents,
scope and limitation.
 A. Introduction
B. Results
C. Methods
D. Discussion
46. Terry’s quizzes in her Mathematics subject are 10, 15, 18, 18, 12, 20, 19 and 18. Find the mean.
A. 13.25
B. 13.5
C. 16.05
D. 16.25
47. Rod’s score in science for the third quarter is D 8 and got the score of 20. What does it mean?
A. 8% of his scores are less than or equal to 20.
B. 80% of his scores are less than or equal to 22.
C. 80% of his scores are less than or equal to 20.
D. 88% or his scores are less than or equal to 22.
48. The numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 have weights of 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, and 0.4 respectively. What is the weighted
mean?
A. 3.2
B. 3
C. 2.8
D. 2.5
49. Give a test in Statistics, the 75% percentile score is 20. What does it mean?
A. Students should answer correctly at least 20 items to pass the test.
B. Students should answer correctly at least 10 items to pass the test.
C. Students should answer 75 points to pass the test.
D. Students should answer 25 points to pass the test.
50. A class of 30 students took Geography test, 28 students had an average score of 80%. The
remaining students were sick and took the test the following week. They had an average score of 77%.
What was the average score for the whole class?
A. 80
B. 79.80
C. 77.20
D. 77.0